Botanical Forest Product Buyer Permit
An eligible person may apply to the Directorate of Lands & Resources for a Botanical Forest Product Buyer Permit, please contact: Directorate of Lands & Resources at Tel: 250 633 3000.
Permit Conditions
No person may, as part of a commercial enterprise, buy any botanical forest product unless the person has a botanical forest product buyer permit.
The director may issue a botanical forest product buyer permit.
An application for a botanical forest product buyer permit must be in a form specified by the director, and contain the information required by the director.
- A botanical forest product buyer permit
- May give its holder the right to establish a temporary buying station for the term of the permit.
- Must specify the species of botanical forest products that may be purchased under the permit.
- Must be for a term not exceeding one year,
- May limit the volume of botanical forest products that may be purchased under the permit.
- Must require the holder to pay to the Nisga’a Nation a fee prescribed by regulation, and
- May include other terms and conditions, consistent with this Act and the regulations, that the director considers necessary.
- A botanical forest product buyer permit does not provide its holder, either on or before the expiry of that permit, with a right to a replacement permit.
- A holder of a botanical forest product buyer permit must not assign or transfer that permit without the prior written consent of the director.